Field guide No. 1646
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Smashed, but the view is fine.
A white enamel plate lies broken into wedges on a black table. Through the gaps between the pieces there is a sunlit window.
Field noteCracks open onto daylight and a window frame, as if the plate had been glazed over a room.
Also possible, also breaking category
Crust out of officeTwo loaves sit apart on a flour-dusted counter. One crust is handling correspondence.
Torn leaf, emerging butterfliesA torn leaf edge turns into butterflies of its own colour. Moths do mimic leaves; none are born from one.
Scale transitViaducts arch; so do leaping fish. Casting one as the other is civil engineering with flair.
Whale surfacing through desert sandWhales breach water. Sand is a solid that has never been told it can be swum.